e unum pluribus
Our task is to Meet and Meet again. To be one in our diversity, e pluribus unum. Also to be diverse in our unity, e enum pluribus.
:- Doug.
Archive for December, 2014
Honor the time of dying
Honor the time of dying. Recoil not. Perhaps there is learning, even beauty here. Honor the time of dying.
:- Doug.
More tomorrow
Your God is too small for the really real. A greybeard on a big chair is a pipe dream we have told ourselves. Loving and creating flow together outward. Look here. I have not allowed myself the freedom I have. More tomorrow.
:- Doug.
Remembering how
Remembering how
Inventing how
At times that’s why we converse
How to what?
Die
Be present for this one dying
Be present for this one living
:- Doug.
My souls come and go
My souls come and go
within my one lifetime
we are many
we are flow
we are forever unfinishing
:- Doug.
I am a force for reflection
I am a force for reflection
discovery vulnerability
the all there is
:- Doug.
Both lose and find
Being heard
Absorbing another
Partaking of a deepening conversation
We both lose and
Find our selves
:- Doug.
safe from the crisis
The conversations I invite take place safe from the crisis. Yet they prepare us for the crisis. In a sense they are memento mori (remember dying): memento viventium (remember living) in the face of memento mori. Not so we have a ready answer, so we remember how.
:- Doug.
Growth of a different sort?
As we get older our species
Draws ever smaller circles
Community becomes friends
Becomes family—reversing
Our course of younger years
Growth of a different sort?
Growth work that especially
The dying and the demented do
:- Doug.
Which is the larger choice?
Which is the larger choice—
The task right and good
Or the project with the better chance of success?
:- Doug.
